By TwoCircles.net news desk,

Guwahati: Renowned Zoologist Prof. M. Shamim Jairajpuri of Aligarh Muslim University has been conferred the Lifetime Achievement Award in Zoology by the Zoological Society of India at the National Congress of Zoology held in Guwahati.

Governor of Meghalaya Shri Moosaharry presented Prof. Jairajpuri the award. This is for the first time that anyone has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Zoological Society of India.

Governor Moosaharry also presented him the eminent Indian Zoologist Gold Medal together with the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Prof. Jairajpuri has earlier received the Lifetime Achievement Award in Parasitology by the India Society for Parasitology in 2007 and the Lifetime Achievement in recognition of his research in Nematology by the Nematological Society of India as they conferred on him the Honorary Fellowship of Society in 2006.